Swamp Rat Custom Shop Saddle Tramp, SR-3V

The Saddle Tramp is the ultimate Cowboy Knife in SR-3V steel

When the idea for a Cowboy Knife was brought up, We started down the path of "What is a Cowboy Knife and what would it need to do?" Having spent my entire life on a horse and cattle farm, We quickly realized that this knife is going to be put to use on a vast number of tasks. Some of these tasks are very specific to the ranch/farm world, while others could be construed as just typical EDC applications. It needs to be tough, sharp, smaller in size but not too small. A blade that can handle the abuse of dirt, rocks, wire fencing, blood, hair, etc.

We reached out to a lot of friends and business associates in the worlds of horses, cattle ranching, farming, rodeo and just all around "Cowboying".

This information is coming from various geographic locations and encompasses everything from working cattle ranches, large horse training and boarding facilities, to multiple thousand-acre farms and professional rodeo circuits. These responses came from Montana, Missouri, Texas, New Mexico, Oregon, Ohio, Florida, Michigan and Wyoming, pretty much covering every environment that North American has to offer.

We asked them to give us a week's worth of knife use in these different arenas. In no particular order, knives were used for a multitude of applications that include:

• Hoof cleaning and stone removal on both horse and cattle hooves
• Removing burrs from manes and tails of horses
• Cutting open hay bales and feed bags
• Lancing wounds and performing castrations on both horses and cattle
• Pounding through fence wire to repair electric fencing
• Removing ear tags from cattle as well as performing ear notching cuts.
• Cutting leather straps, poking holes in leather and cutting rawhide for saddle and leather tack maintenance and repairs
• Cutting and removing weeds and branches interfering with electric fencing wires
• Skinning and processing both wild game and domestic meat producing livestock
• Making kindling for fire-starting
• General food prep. Slicing meat and vegetables.
• Cutting various treats for horse, apples, carrots, sugar beets, etc.
• Wire stripping and cutting hydraulic lines for tractor maintenance and repair
• Opening buckets of oil and hydraulic fluid
• General maintenance on tractors, balers, trucks, trailers and all-terrain vehicles
• Notching wood posts for fencing
• Cut riggings and straps to save hung up cowboys at rodeos
• Dispatching unwanted critters
• Cleaning fingernails
• Light digging and sod removal to drive fence posts

As you can see the uses of a "Cowboy Knife" can be vast and it needs to meet a large variety of tasks. Hopefully these guys are cleaning the knife between castrations and food prep!!!

Their criteria included:
- Large enough to handle daily chores while still being small enough to not impede movement in a saddle or when climbing in and out of vehicles
- A handle that was comfortable in both bare hands as well as a gloved hand.
- Large enough handles to provide a solid, full-hand grip, but not overly large where it could get in the way.
- Sharp for various cutting applications without the need for constant resharpening.
- Enough of a point to do finer work.
- A handle that provides grip but is not overly aggressive to the point that it creates blisters or hot spots.

A Nuclear handle option is a grab bag of sorts. This pile of handles has many hand-laminated G10 and Micarta slabs as well as some solid colors not normally offered! This option does not allow you to choose your handle! You do not get A CHOICE! You will get whatever you get by the blind luck of the draw! It is a veritable PORKpourri of oddball handle materials! Nobody likes whine with their bacon, so we have implemented a No Returns / No whine clause. There are no returns on the Nuclear Option.

You also have a choice of a choil or No choil

An optional Danny The Bull Sheath is available in Black or Tan Leather. Standard Price = $39.95, Work Horse discount = $29.95. That's a $10.00 Savings

This sheath is 100% U.S.A made (No Bull) and features the following:
• Right-handed belt loop that is triple riveted for strength • Double stitching
• Stained & nicely finished edge • 8 oz. leather (approx. 1/8” thick)
• Vegetable tanned leather with No SALTS whatsoever! • 30 day exchange policy for defect

Sheath Shipping & Handling is FREE if your sheath is shipped with your knife. Otherwise, Shipping and Handling is $9.95 for all shipments in the Continental U.S. **No Other Discounts Will Apply**.

Your horsemen

Garth and VooDoo